{"id":2744,"date":"2014-08-18T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T01:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2014-08-04T10:06:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T02:06:56","slug":"john-rufo-on-hsia-yus-salsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2744","title":{"rendered":"John Rufo on Hsia Y\u00fc’s Salsa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"salsa_w\"<\/em><\/a>John Rufo<\/span> has posted a review<\/a> of Steve Bradbury’s new translation of Salsa<\/em> by Hsia Y\u00fc \u590f\u5b87 (Zephyr Press<\/a>). It starts:<\/p>\n

Jorge Luis Borges has been reincarnated as a radical poet from Taipei, and Salsa<\/em> invites you to her personal hell. In Hsia Y\u00fc\u2019s most recently translated book of poems, we come face-to-face with an inferno of identity crises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And ends:<\/p>\n

Translators typically present Borges\u2019s most famous prose-poem \u201cBorges y Yo\u201d in English as \u201cBorges and I.\u201d If Hsia Y\u00fc wrote a version of this poem, the title might be \u201cHsia Y\u00fc and I.\u201d This sounds altogether more intimate than \u201cBorges and I\u201d because of the homophone, in English, of \u201cyou.\u201d At the same time, the duality of \u201cY\u00fc,\u201d both as the poet\u2019s name, who is not you, and as \u201cyou,\u201d who might be you, reveals the frightening fracture of identity Salsa<\/em> endlessly probes. \u201cBut,\u201d as a line of Hsia Y\u00fc\u2019s poem \u201cAnd You\u2019ll Never Want to Travel There Again\u201d rightly notes, \u201cI do leave a memorable fracture.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click on the image above for the full review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Rufo has posted a review of Steve Bradbury’s new translation of Salsa by Hsia Y\u00fc \u590f\u5b87 (Zephyr Press). It starts: Jorge Luis Borges has been reincarnated as a radical poet from Taipei, and Salsa invites you to her personal … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[761,1440,816,116],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Ig","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2992,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2992","url_meta":{"origin":2744,"position":0},"title":"Salsa on Entropy’s best poetry of 2014","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Steve Bradbury's translation of Salsa by Hsia Y\u00fc \u590f\u5b87 (Zephyr Press) was named one of the thirty Best Poetry Books & Collections of 2014 by the independent literature community and portal Entropy. 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